Improved device for supporting the shafts of vehicles



FINK L DAVELER.

Shaft Holder.

Patented Oct. 5, i869.'

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RUBIN FINK AND REUBEN D Letters Patent .N 95,452, dated October 5, 1869.

I IMPROVE-n DEVICE Fon 'SUPPORTING THE sHAFTs orvnHIQLEs.

The Schedule referred toin these LetterePatentand making part of the same.

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Be it known that we, RUBIN FINK and REUBEN DAvELEn, of tlre city of Lancaster, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and improved Def vice for Supporting the Shafts of Vehicles; and we declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improvement iu place, showing the shafts propped up.

Figure 2, the position of the parts when the shafts are down. v

Figure 3, profile. View of the combined lever and spring detached from the clip and shafts or thillcoupling, f

lhe nature of our invention consists in providing a means, in connection with the ordinary clips, to support the shafts ot' vehicles in a vertical position, so desirable, iu order to ecouoinize space in the shed or in the road, where a great number of vehicles is brought together on occasions of gatherings .in town or country.

'To enable others skilled in .the artto make and use our invention, it is only necessaryto inspect the drawings.

Fig.`1 shows a supporting-device on each side of the shaft or clip, operated by a bent 1ever-rod,R, centrally between the shafts.

A crank-like handle ou one side may be employed to work both levers L, by means of the connecting-bar Z.

The prolonged piece of the thill, or clip I, marked o, supports the fulerum-piece B by means of a headed bolt, c, entcling through the shaft and plates O 13 and secured hy a nut. f

' This fulcrum-picce B is curved below, for a pin' or pivot, and turned out at right angles above, at b, with a slot for the stem ofthe spring t'ulcrum A.

This is also curved and perforated for .a pin. t

A coiled spring, s, is shown, and a lever, L, with an elbow, E, connectedv by pins to both the fulcumpieces A B, at separate points, as shown.

The levers L are connect-ed by a rod, l.

The ends of ,the levers L'rest or lock, by the action I of the spring upon the prolonged plate K, under the clip, and thus prop up the shaft.

pull or turn on the spring fulcrum at its conneetion at a with the lever-rod or handle R, throws the lever-L out, and, the shafts` released, ldwer them to the position shown by fig. 2. l

'lhe drawings of the device are nearly full-size, but the shafts greatly reduced, causing the same to look out of proportion.

Te are aware that various clips or thill-couplings are adopted for holding up the shafts, but they soon Wear, and lose their eicacy. y

We are not aware that a device, attached expressly for the purpose, eoinbined and operating substantially v in manner specified, has ever been used.

What we claim as our invention, and Adesire to sel 

